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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: September 1, 2015

Finish date: September 30, 2015

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Mar 18, 2013 Rikke rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-books, classics, science-fiction

I will always be amazed whenever I read a science-fiction classic such as this, and find that the author actually had grasped a figment of truth in his predictions. To have such a clear understand of where the world is heading, is equally fascinating and terrifying.

In Bradbury's future books are being burned; and the only stimulation there is left on the planet is one of stupid interactive soap operas. A future without books is almost too sad to bear - and the effect it has on people is inevitab ...more

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Jul 09, 2013 Irene rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, danish, 2013, presents

Another classical book read. Yay. This was a good one. A story about firemen burning down houses that contains books was just what I needed. It's thought provoking (and gruesom!) why they're doing it, and that helped me to keep reading.

While this book was a good classical novel, I didn't found it to be a good sci-fi novel. It wasn't exactly as much sci-fi as I was expecting, so I guess I was a bit disappointed at that. I did like it as a classical novel though, and the writing wasn't nearly as h ...more

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Dec 23, 2011 Danny rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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An ode to the book that is absolutely captivating from start to finish. The bleak future has similarities with 1984, but it is not totalitarianism upon which the novel focuses, but rather the incredible transformation Montag, the protagonist, goes through, and one can only wonder what it must be like to feel the revelation of poetry and novels.

The thinking of the society itself is also deeply fascinating. Indeed, one would think that were all art transformed into mindless happy entertainment th ...more

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